The 28-year-old vowed this week he would return better than ever after he checked into a Baja el Sol rehabilitation clinic in the Mexican state of Sinaloa in a bid to recover from his alcohol addiction.

And despite Pena expected to be in the clinic for at least a month, Liga MX outfit Necaxa have taken over the remaining six months of his loan contract.

The Aguascalientes outfit will be in the bottom half of the table for Mexico’s second part of the season following their mid-season split.

And it means Pena will go head-to-head with his former Rangers and Cruz Azul boss Pedro Caixinha who axed him from his Mexico City club last month.